<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Birdie with a yellow bill</div><div>hopped up on my window sill</div><div>cocked his shining eye and said,</div><div>"What are we having for dinner, mother?</div><div>Goose?"</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I remember that from elementary school days.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Cold winter mornings in Hopkins with the coal furnace not yet stoked and WCCO on the radio.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Brought to us by Cocoa Wheats. I used to buy a pack of sunflower seeds (salted) and insert the seeds into the crevices in the bark of a plum tree for chickadees and nuthatches, It took me a long to to figure out that birds don't eat soot, they were talking about suet. Duh.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Don Grussing</div><div>Minnetonka</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"mnbird" <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net><br><b>To: </b>"James Amundson" <jamesamundson@aol.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"Allen Batt" <snoeowl@aol.com>, "mnbird" <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, January 25, 2022 7:31:33 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Mnbird] A scattering of snow bound starlings , st Michael, Wright county b but barely. Hennepin is just across the river<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">“A birdie with a yellow bill</div><div dir="ltr">Hopped upon my windowsill</div><div dir="ltr">Cocked his shining and said, </div><div dir="ltr">“What’s that in the road</div><div dir="ltr"> Ahead?”</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The only one of these kinds of things I remember hearing from him.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jan 24, 2022, at 7:04 PM, James Amundson <<a href="mailto:jamesamundson@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">jamesamundson@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote><div dir="ltr">72 years old and remember watching every morning before school. He even visited mankato for a supermarket opening, went and saw him. <br><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aol.mobile.aolapp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sent from the all new AOL app for Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0"> <div style="font-family:'roboto' , sans-serif;color:#6d00f6"> <div>On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 6:50 PM, <a href="mailto:m-pank@umn.edu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">m-pank@umn.edu</a></div><div><<a href="mailto:m-pank@umn.edu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">m-pank@umn.edu</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6"> <div id="yiv7189047763"><div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Pleasantly surprised that others remember this, the bad puns, the treehouse. Not many of us left.</div><div id="yiv7189047763yqt05993" class="yiv7189047763yqt2871308597"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none">On Jan 24, 2022, at 5:21 PM, James Amundson via Mnbird <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote><div dir="ltr">Always did like axel and his tree house.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv7189047763ymail_android_signature"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aol.mobile.aolapp" target="_blank">Sent from the all new AOL app for Android</a></div> <br clear="none"> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0"> <div style="font-family:'roboto' , sans-serif;color:#6d00f6"> <div>On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 4:10 PM, Allen Batt via Mnbird</div><div><<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6"> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">Mnbird mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net</a><br clear="none"> </div> </blockquote></div></blockquote></div><blockquote><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Mnbird mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net</a><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></div> </div> </blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mnbird mailing list<br>Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net<br>http://mail.lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net<br></div></div></body></html>